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Mt. Robson, Mt. Athabasca & Edith Cavell, August 2003 Click on any picture to see a full-screen view (large view pictures are about 1mb) |
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| A very long day climbing Mt. Edith Cavell | ||
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| Mt. Edith Cavell is the very prominent peak as seen from anywhere in the town of Jasper. Our goal was to ascend it's East ridge. | We left the parking lot at 5 a.m., using our headlamps to navigate the glacial moraine. Here we're ascending steep snow to get to the col below the East ridge itself. | The steep snow of the prior picture is at left-center. Here we're scambling up the lower portion of the ridge--no rope required (yet). |
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| Portions of the scramble on the lower East Ridge weren't bad at all--except for tons and tons of loose rock. | Several sections of the ridge required crampons. Here two other climbers above us traverse a short section of steep snow and ice. | Ted with the upper, much steeper and harder, section of the East ridge yet to climb. |
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| A steep, much harder section of the East ridge. | Ted leading some of the steep sections of the East ridge. | More steep rock required careful testing of each hold to insure the rock was (somewhat) firmly attached. Nothing appeared to be totally solid on the ridge! |
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| On the summit ridge, there is a cornice. Here's an interesting view looking through the cornice back down on a lake far below. One doesn't want to step on (through) the snow here! | Looking back down to the parking lot. Total climbing time, parking lot to summit was 10 and a half hours. | The summit ridge of Edith Cavell with the interesting snow cornice. |
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| Mike, Dan and Ted on the summit of Edith Cavell. | View of Mt. Geike from the summit of Edith Cavell. Views were somewhat obscured this day due to numerous forest fires in the region. | Dan and Mike descending the West side of Edith Cavell. The standard desent involves scrambling down the West side, then hiking out the Tonquin Valley. |
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| We had to traverse the ridge all the way to the left side of the photo, then scramble down very loose rock. Dan and two other climbers can be seen in this picture. | There are supposed to be many grizzly bears in the Tonquin Valley. Fortunately, we didn't see any. | On the hike out we saw a rescue helicopter sling-loading a ranger in to rescue other climbers on a nearby mountain. In all, we had a 16+ hour day with probably less than 30 min of total break time. |
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